Nursing home whistle-blower suit can proceed

Fired worker claims facility retaliated

5:03 AM,
Jun. 30, 2013

Written by

Walter F. Roche Jr.
The Tennessean

The former nursing home employee who reported to state health officials that he found an elderly patient lying in a pool of urine and who photographed another patient's severe bedsore to show his superiors can proceed with his whistle-blower and wrongful termination lawsuit, a circuit judge has ruled.

Judge Hamilton Gayden on Friday denied a motion to dismiss the suit filed by Michael Cantrell, a licensed practical nurse, whose complaint triggered a state inspection and a temporary shutdown of the Imperial Gardens Health and Rehabilitation Center in Madison.